With drawings by Stephen Margulies, these prosodic parodies cover a set of well-known poems, most pointedly the Nonsense verse of Edward Lear. They take Nonsense and game-playing as a test for a private life in an Iron Age. "A fantastical book" (Janet Kauffman), it's been called "a looting and a hooting - for life" (Judith Hall) and a brief for "the deep necessity of play" (George Quasha).